After I updated my WordPress to the latest of the series, 3.0, I got notified that I could update my current theme (jQ). I had no problems with it, but the version number difference was quite big so I thought quite a bit of changes must’ve been made. And thus I clicked on the update button. Whoosh! No more working theme, yay!

So, for now this is the new theme. Until jQ gets fixed I suppose. I liked the older one better. Still, this isn’t too bad.

I’ve been planning to writing my own CMS to maintain my website from day one. Thing is, due to my day job taking up 40+ hours a week I don’t have much time to focus on this. Besides, my day job is web development so I really don’t have much energy nor motivation left to write a CMS. I figured others already did the hard part for me so instead, why not use what’s out there?

I’ve taken a look at MoveableType, which has a very nice admin panel, but installing it on a shared hosting provider is a bit of a pain so I ended up testing it in VMWare. Because of bad Perl support in shared webhosting land I wasn’t really looking forward to all the headaches updating would give me.

So what’s next? I had used WordPress a couple of years ago. Didn’t really like it, nor the interface nor the codebase. I was very surprised to see the new admin panel. Very easy to use just like MoveableType. The big pro for WordPress is it’s ease of installation, and the amount of themes and plugins.

At the moment I’m busy setting up all the pages. I plan on using this site to keep you updated on all my projects, be it games, applications or my BlitzMax user libraries. But I’ll also use the blog for my hobbies, which include guitar playing, Atari Jaguar, my dog and what not :-).